AEBS Erratic behavior when connecting to attached USB Drives in XP

I have the old 10 100 version of the AEBS. I have always had problems with connecting to the attached USB (3) drives on a powered USB adapter. I have spent hours on the phone with Apple Support and eventually Apple released new firmware for the AEBS. This seemed to correct the connection problem for my iMac under Leopard. The AEBS does show in the Finder and I can connect to it with no problems. When I use my XP pc, the story is entirely different.
There seems to be several problems and maybe someone can help me with this.
Every time I shut down the XP machine, I have to remap the drives to letters X. Y, and Z. At times I am simply asked for the password to the AEBS to connect. At other times I have to disconnect the mapped drives (they no longer work but still show in explorer) then remap them again. This will work some times but most of the time I will get a message saying the network connection is unplugged (this is the AEBS restarting as I no longer have access on my iMac) and the mapping process will fail. This should be a simple process and I should be able to access the 3 drives either by mapping them or going through the network connections in Explorer.
Does anyone know why this process of mapping drives on the XP machine would keep restarting the AEBS? Is there any way to permanently keep the connection to the AEBS 3 hard drives when I reboot the XP machine?

I would also like to do this, but in the meantime, here is my question for you: How did you connect multiple hard drives to the AEBS? Did you just use a USB hub, or did you successfully link the two drives? I have one enclosure that has a USB, and that one is connected and working with the AEBS, but i would like to connect another one also, but it only has FW ports. I tried to link the two together with FW, but the FW HDD isn't showing up. I would be willing to get a new enclosure for that drive, if I was sure it wold work through a hub...

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